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Pillars United States. Mar 01 2011 00:46. Posts 1049

The Journey
by Mary Oliver

One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice--
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
"Mend my life!"
each voice cried.
But you didn't stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do--
determined to save
the only life you could save.

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Maynard! United States. Mar 01 2011 00:52. Posts 4453

Sometimes I think of what is and what could have been had I been there or done something differently. This reminds me of how insignificant I really am. This gets me scared so I think of dancing monkeys.

Now I really am a busto. Thanks FTP.

Last edit: 01/03/2011 01:08

djforever Canada. Mar 01 2011 01:25. Posts 1510

good poem. kind of fits with what im going through right now. reading your last blog entry you said that you no longer had any enjoyment to play and just were grinding it out. how long do you think you'll do that? what are you thinking of doing after? just curious.

Pillars United States. Mar 01 2011 01:55. Posts 1049

On March 01 2011 00:25 djforever wrote:
good poem. kind of fits with what im going through right now. reading your last blog entry you said that you no longer had any enjoyment to play and just were grinding it out. how long do you think you'll do that? what are you thinking of doing after? just curious.

I'll probably play between 1-3 more years. Money is just too useful a resource, and I'm still able to pull in large amounts of it in a relatively consistent manner at this point.

Not sure what comes after - that's a question I've been asking for the better part of a decade...not what comes after poker exactly - but what comes after shuffling through the American educational system. I'm interested in teaching, writing, psychology, philosophy, and various 'helper' professions. I'm doing my best this year to seek out ways of connecting with those interests, hoping to transition more and more of my energy into activities / pursuits / a path which elicit a deeper sense of purpose.

If none of that pans out I'll probably go into business with Maynard as a professional troll.

Silver_nz New Zealand. Mar 01 2011 01:59. Posts 5647

good rhyme flow

it's in the past tense, and the past can't be changed, so thinking about it is always going to make you feel helpless.

..unless... you say "i wanted it thus!"
"at that time with the info I had that was what I wanted!"

monkeys!

Gumster Sweden. Mar 01 2011 10:04. Posts 2291

On March 01 2011 00:55 Pillars wrote:

sorry i just have to ask this, wtf does that smiley represent?

Do not push the river, it will flow by itself. - Polish proverb

Pillars United States. Mar 01 2011 12:43. Posts 1049

On March 01 2011 09:04 Gumster wrote:

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On March 01 2011 00:55 Pillars wrote:

sorry i just have to ask this, wtf does that smiley represent?

A seemingly endless series of smiley faces! It struck me as an underutilized emoticon, so I figured I'd give it a chance to exist and it roughly matched the emotional content of the sentence it followed!

nolan Ireland. Mar 01 2011 21:32. Posts 6205

such a sick poem.

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